Both header dropdowns were laid out inside the bar rather than over the
page. The navigation menu opened as an 18px sliver positioned above its
own button, and the overflow menu did not appear at all.
Two causes. The tab strip kept `overflow-x: auto` from when it scrolled,
which clips an absolutely positioned descendant — and the strip is what
the navigation menu anchors to. The strip no longer scrolls, since the
occasional destinations moved behind More, so the property and the edge
fade that went with it are both gone.
Anchoring in fixed coordinates at open time addresses the general case:
an absolutely positioned menu is clipped by any scrolling ancestor and
trapped inside whatever stacking context its ancestors create, so it can
be squashed inside the bar or painted underneath page content. Fixed
coordinates answer to the viewport, and the menu flips above its button
near the bottom edge.
Clearing `right` when setting `left` keeps the menus at their natural
width: the stylesheet pins them to the right of their anchor, and leaving
that in place stretched them across the bar — 845px for a four-item list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GdyUjuXejCEfiub675z6cz
Signed-off-by: Stan Grams <sjg@haxx.space>
sjgandClaude Opus 5